What's the difference between allopathy and homoeopathy?
Allopathy
Definition:
(n.) That system of medical practice which aims to combat disease by the use of remedies which produce effects different from those produced by the special disease treated; -- a term invented by Hahnemann to designate the ordinary practice, as opposed to homeopathy.
Example Sentences:
(1) Popular beliefs about the cause of jaundice appear to have evolved to fit therapeutic practices adopted by vaidyas from allopathy.
(2) It is applicable in the fields of homoepathy and allopathy, however, there are many different ways of treatment.
(3) To insure that allopathy is properly understood and utilized within the pluralistic context, the identification and training of coordinating personnel who may specialize in diagnosis or referral demonstrates promise.
(4) The purpose of this article is to show the advancement in knowledge of cesarean sections among African traditional healers before the advent of colonialism and introduction of scientific medicine (allopathy) to Africa.
(5) In general, ayurveda can play an effective complementary role to allopathy’s emergency medical care system,” says Vasudevan, who believes the lowest economic strata can benefit the most from these choices in treatment.
Homoeopathy
Definition:
(n.) Same as Homeopathic, Homeopathist, Homeopathy.
Example Sentences:
(1) The traditional concepts of the homoeopathy are challenged with the modern knowledge arising from basic and applied research.
(2) A whole number of trials concerning both basic and clinical research have given evidence of the efficacy of homoeopathy and of the way it works.
(3) The results of the review may be complicated by publication bias, especially in such a controversial subject as homoeopathy.
(4) Homoeopathy was established in 1796 by Samuel Hahnemann (1755-1843).
(5) For homoeopathy, ascorbic acid and ginkgo the proportion of all trials found by Medline was 17%, 36% and 31% respectively and for Embase 13%, 25% and 58% respectively.
(6) A growing number of physicians in everyday practice use homoeopathy not as an alternative but rather as a supplementation to conventional medicine.
(7) By the establishment of an institute called Institutum homoeopathicum et magneticum the homoeopathy concentrates for a long time on Anhalt territories also after Hahnemann's retirement.
(8) High scores were especially found for manual therapy, yoga, acupuncture, hot bath therapy and homoeopathy.
(9) The fight against homoeopathy permanently remains on the programme of the scholastic medicine, which certainly appeals to existing laws, but cannot prevent the development of a prospering business with homoeopathy.
(10) Yes, we insist, somehow the British will struggle on without Charles’s biscuits , his architectural guidance, his deeper thoughts on nanotechnology, homoeopathy and “the beingness of things”.
(11) In 14 trials some form of classical homoeopathy was tested and in 58 trials the same single homoeopathic treatment was given to patients with comparable conventional diagnosis.
(12) To establish whether there is evidence of the efficacy of homoeopathy from controlled trials in humans.
(13) Trials of classical homoeopathy and several modern varieties were considered separately.
(14) In the years between 1821 and 1835 the domiciliation of Samuel Hahnemann in Köthen induces a consolidation of the homoeopathy in the district of the Anhalt territories.
(15) Most of the 360 (60%) GPs who replied expressed on interest in alternative practice; and 47% revealed that they used one or more alternative methods themselves, most often homoeopathy.
(16) In 1976, the term of "special therapy methods", denoting homoeopathy, anthroposophical medicine, and phytotherapy, was incorporated into the German law concerning pharmaceutical preparations.
(17) Homoeopathy, health food preparations and herbal remedies were used most.
(18) There is a very wide range of alternative approaches to allergy, including the methods used by clinical ecologists and other treatments such as acupuncture and homoeopathy.
(19) This was performed for controlled clinical trials on the efficacy of three interventions: homoeopathy, ascorbic acid for common cold, and ginkgo biloba for intermittent claudication and cerebral insufficiency.
(20) The revival of neomysticism, especially promoted by nonqualified representatives of press and tv, leads to a worldwide trend to homoeopathy, acupuncture, herb-cure, Christian-Science, and to many others.